1918
The last notes put to bed May 5th were published in June. We start our 18th year on '18 class notes today - Aug. 31, and you'll be reading it Oct. 10. A lot can happen - and has happened - in those 5 months.
In a gala reunion of Classical H.S. in Spring field, Mass., our Judge Don A. Macau lay, Pres. of the Alumni Assoc., was principal speaker. ...The Winchester, Mass., League of Women Voters always send out a questionnaire to the local candidates, one of whom was '18's George A. Saltmarsh (graduate of H.S. there, served 2 years World War I, associated 20 years with investment house of J. H. Goddard & Co., Inc. in Boston. Town Meeting member from 1944-1952 when he was appointed to the Town Finance Committee, being the present chairman). Some of the Boston boys will certainly give George a ring to get him out to '18 gatherings.
GOP Recommend David Skinner for Coun cilman — Rye (N. Y.) Chronicle - to serve the unexpired term of another Councilman. Dave has been for nearly 30 years extremely active in Rye civic life, though his job as V.P. of Harriman-Ripley and Co. takes a lot of his time. He served as City Republican party treasurer, was campaign chairman for Red Cross drives, World War II and first V.P. of the Rye YMCA for 10 years, and 2 years special gifts chairman for Rye Community Chest, is a senior warden of Christ's Episcopal Church.
Last April the Gem Investing Corp. announced Martin L. Straus II was launching the Marlowe Chemical Company (we presume for his charming wife Ann Marlowe) and one of its first ventures is the development of a really sound workable low cost unit fire-extinguisher. Came June Marty's Tintair had full pages in New York newspapers and in August the N. Y. papers told about Marty's fire extinguisher, the Fire Chief selling for only $2.95. Everything Marty lays his hand on is always a success.
To Howard J. Mullin '27 we are indebted for the program of "Francis C. Hardie Testimonial Dinner" at the Duquesne Club, Indianapolis, Ind., April 15, attended by 75 of his male admirers from all walks of life. For over 30 years, Fat maintained his ability for tonnage production, as well as making a host of loyal friends. It had been rumored that "Ole Ten-Double Scotches" (so called always by Nuts Poole) and this, with pretty good authority, was told to Daniel Patrick Shea that Fat definitely was thinking of getting married - all as part of the package of retirement. Right now Hercules Stanley Jones maintains that Fat is in Honolulu — and from there he sent to Stan's wife, M.0., the loveliest Hawaiian lei of their native flowers. They say we'll see Fat at the '18 reunions Oct. 1 and 22.
Going to be at the 'lB Reunion at the Harvard Game, Hanover, Oct. 22? Cocktails and lunch at the Green Lantern Inn at 11 o'clock. All '18ers and guests welcome. This will be a most enjoyable party; getting out in time to see the kickoff. Cocktails and lunch all for only $3 each. Bring as many guests as you wish. Especial thanks go to Dick Cooley, DukeDusossoit, and Em Morse for both the Holy Cross '18 party and this wonderful '18 party at the Harvard game.
Francis T. Christy again reelected Vice Pres. of Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, after which wife Katink and Chris headed for Canada and some good fishing.... Marion andFrank Clahane enjoyed so much the visit they had at Buck Hills Falls last spring with Marguerite and Bill Chisholm. This gathering represented 10% of '18's Phi Beta Kappas. Marion and Frank also had a delightful drive through New England in August after Marion had taken a nasty fall, landing on a tray of cocktails she had been carrying.
Extremely interesting to read and most impressive was the annual report of the New England Gas & Electric Assn. of which our Horton L. Chandler is asst. to the pres. ... Mildred and Bob Fish left Arizona June 1, headed for San Diego to visit daughter Connie and family - then through the Rockies and on to Madison, Wise., where young Bob is doing research in chemistry; then on to Cambridge, Mass., to visit daughter Joan and Bud. Bud got his Ph.D. and is appointed to the Harvard faculty. Visiting N. Y. city, Bob found the damp heat frightful for his arthritis. Up in New England 'twas better and Bob and Mildred enjoyed the pleasure of dinner with Barbara and Harvey Hood. Bob had called our attention to an error in the May issue of this MAGAZINE: the omission of the word "eminent" in the item about our Les Granger which read "Les Granger is really one of the members of the class." When called to Les's attention, he said, "Really one of the members of the class" is good enough for me without the "eminent."
Had a delightful talk with Les Granger and he and Harriet had just returned from a 9000mile trip in a new car; saw all the hills and deserts and Death Valley; all he always dreamed about. He never thought he'd survive 102 degrees temperature in Kansas City finally he and Harriet enjoyed winding up at Winthrop Rockefeller's place in Arkansas.
Murray A. Baldwin, former Mayor of Fargo, N. D., is a member of the Highways for Sur- vival Committee, a national group interested in highway improvement The New Hamp- shire scholarship fund - Franklin, Tilton and Northfield, —had a contribution in the form of the previous residence of our late StewBurns.... St. Andrew's Episcopal church, Framingham, Mass., was the scene of the lovely wedding of Betty and Hort Chandler's son, Harvey Horton Chandler.
Wonderful pictures in the newspapers of principal (Central High, Manchester, N. H.) Hubie McDonough, presenting jackets to a championship basketball squad, and to the winner the much coveted Chase Essay prize. The last thing Hubie seeks is publicity - but he gets a lot of it. He's photogenic.... The New Hampshire Taxpayers Federation se- lected for the "Good Citizen" award, JamesM. Langley - publisher of the Monitor.
"The Federation's definition of 'Good Citizen' in its award is a man whose unpaid deeds contribute to wise and sound public affairs, which covers much of Jim's area ... city planning, zoning, erection of a new hospital, taxation studies, industrial expansion for Concord and New Hampshire."
The presentation was made to Jim's wife Florence, while Jim was busy in Washington on Pres. Eisenhower's assignment of a trade treaty with the Philippines.
Mac (Mayo) Magoon, Franklin H.S. headmaster, made a good recovery from a serious operation.... Bill Wright is chairman again of the U.S. Section of the Mexico U.S. Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the U.S. Isabel and Johnnie Simmons had their annual pilgrimage to Daytona Beach, took in a few Directors' meetings on the way back Jack Slabaugh wrote - "I finally got a drink out of Cort Horr in Chicago. Thelma and I have reservations at Orford Inn for the Harvard Game weekend." Born to Judv Slabaugh Draffan, a son, Jeffrey Black Draffan. Says Jack, "About time we got some males in this family."
Mrs. Tom Tarrant (Barbara, from San Antonio, Texas; and the U. of Texas) with daughter Jean and Tommy are building a house on Cat Rock Road, Cos Cob, Conn., and, says Tommy, "When we get it finished about Christmas time we would like the boys to drop in on us." Tommy looks fine and does well on a quarter-size stomach, eating twice as much as before, figuring that in the past four years of surgery, he's had enough.
We lost an '18er in July—Chet Conlon. Chet was a nice man and had many loyal friends on the campus. Two or three times in Florida we tried to look him up. See In Memoriam.
A wonderful time was had by all who went to Commencement at Hanover last June. Judge Clarence Opper was there. Mrs. Al Piper was elected Pres. of the Keene Unitarian Alliance. Ruth and Jake Bingham's daughter Jane had a small part in Sabrina Fair, given by the Players at Commencement. Ruth did her magnificent job again this summer, reporting Squirrel Island news for many newspapers. ... Al Kendall had his picture in the papers as Administrator of F.H.A. in New Hampshire.
At Hanover in June were Alberta and AmosBlandin (how the '15ers enjoyed his stories!), Marjorie and Phil Boynton, Ruth and CurtGlover, who naturally were anxious to see their star Dartmouth leader graduate, son Johnny; and Alice and Lou Huntoon also there, to see their son Schuyler graduate. He had done an outstanding job at Hanover.
Bill Christgau had a good time. He always does. He knew men in all reuning classes, and had many undergraduate friends in college he had encouraged to go to Dartmouth and these he wanted to see. He tells us that Sy (Syvertsen) was one of four elected Delegates to the Episcopalian Diocese Conference and had a delightful trip to Honolulu this summer. Chris enjoyed seeing Ellen and Duke and enjoyed the wonderful hospitality of Carol andEm Morse and the Mary Hitchcock hospital. ... Helen and Paul Miner, who primped up and put on a necktie, to come in and visit us at Woodstock, N. Y. (finding us in dirty shorts and dungarees) had a wonderful vacation on the Cape with Hugh Whipple, fishing and seeing the beautiful roses of Cape Cod. Hugh's son David has a perfectly delightful wife, and together they make a great pair in the Rangoon Embassy, where they enjoy five servants; both are well trained for that sort of life. Younger son Scotty, a very successful lumber salesman in Connecticut.
1918 Dinners, N. Y. City, All Out of TownersWelcome.... Thurs. Oct. 27; Thurs. Dec. I;Thurs. Jan. 13, 1956; Thurs. Feb. 25, 1956;Wed. April 25, 1956; Fri. June 19, 1958, and40th Reunion - Yes, 40th - at Hanover.
Bill Christgau's wife Rose passed away, after an illness of about a year. The sweet, thoughtful, considerate ways of Chris may have come from thousands of personalities - but much of it came from Rose. She was a fine, fine person. Daughter Jean flew back from Holland, son Billy '50 stood by — 41 '18ers from all parts of the country sent comforting letters to Bill. Johnny Campbell and his wife came down from Boston to attend the services—others from NY City attending the services were Ned Ross, Rog Howland, GerryGeran, Edith and Dick Holton, and Dorothyand Steve Mahoney. A floral piece from the class stood by in an area of beautiful flowers from many friends. The host of friends attending the service was a great tribute to Rose and Chris. For a year, Chris towered magnificently. He washed dishes; got the breakfast; did the shopping, always with great hope and always knowing tomorrow would be better. Bill asked us to express his great thanks and appreciation to the many '18ers who sent in comforting notes.
Syl Morey, Chris, Dick Holton and others have received wonderful letters from Spike Puryear at the Hassayampa Hotel in Prescott, Ariz. Spike is an adopted member of 1918. Gradually he is building back his strength. Spike has someone write for him - and always the letters are full of hope. He had felt duty bound to resign from the class, but it was made clear to Spike you can't resign from old friends. Spike already had contributed more to the good fellowship of Dartmouth than we had before he came into the circle. Dick Clarke '15 just called - had a nice visit sort of rubbed it in, said - "See what '15 class did? $25,418 for the Alumni Fund — an average of $99.68 each for 255 contributors." Courteously, he didn't go further; he mentioned other classes, what the average contribution was, but he didn't mention 1918 who did the splendid job of 265 contributors with
$15,914. That's good, but an average of only $60.05 apiece against '15's $99.68 average. As of August 10, the percentage of participation of 69.4% ties the present "world record" established by our Princeton rivals earlier in the year.
Stan and M. O. Jones enjoyed a nice relief from NY City's broiling weather in August, going up to Lake Chebeague where they enjoyed very much seeing Margaret arid SewallStrout, and hoped to see Marge and ParkerPoole. M. O. had been in an auto accident in Washington in June; was knocked out, got a badly wrenched arm, which is still bothersome - so this was a restful change (and how wonderful to come home to find the wreath of Hawaiian leis from Fat Hardie) Bill Bemis was in town this summer; wanted so much to visit with Red Wilson and Francis Christy no; retirement is pretty distant for Bill - lawyers, he said, keep pitching into their Bo's and 90's.
Looking hard, and well tanned, Rev. WaltWiley popped in on his way back to Turkey and he weighs less than on the campus which beats most everyone in '18, except flyweight champ Hal Eastman. Edith and Walt are always watched over by the gracious Burt Lowes '16. Walt was one of go who got their degrees in our class in 1918 — only 90. Walt was sent out as a casualty to fill in on the 26th Division - where Wart McElwain was a machine gunner - landed there in June '18, immediately thrown into the Battle of San-Mihiel and Verdun. Then he was taking care of Dartmouth in Turkey when the massacre of '21 wiped out the spot, and Walt was to come back in a few more years.
A man among men, with a host of friends coast to coast, '18ers will all be happy to know that Steve Mahoney, who led '18's famous 35th reunion, became last July i, President of the Amer. Assn. of Newspaper Representatives - a great honor for Steve. Wife, Dorothy, is a Smith girl as well as attractive daughter D. B. who followed in her mother's footsteps. The son Stephen, a fine looking man and Phi Beta Rapper junior year is talented as a writer Ellen and Duke had a delightful visit with Germaine and Hort Kennedy in Paris, and another year they may try Portugal, un- touched by tourists - From France they went down through Italy and into Egypt. Dinner at 11 at night, 3 or 4 parties, a wonderful trip Duke and Ellen had, and boy, how those ulcers kicked up — and how good it was to get back to the simple diet of Huntington Hill!
From Paris too, a card came in from Mildred and Jay LeFevre, before they went down to the Riviera - says Jay:
"We had a very pleasant call on Hort Kennedy and his charming wife Germaine in Paris. They are a lovely couple! Hort hangs out in a very doggy, beautifully panelled office with a desk I'd like to own - working for Mr. Morgan. Also had the pleasure of talking a few minutes with GeneMarkey and his very attractive wife, at a cocktail party on board the United States."
Someone sent us a very good picture of our Gene Markey and Mrs. Leonard Firestone in the May Vogue. - Stimulated by Mildred and Jay's showing of the pictures they took in Europe, Catherine and Everett Young immedi- ately packed up and headed for their old stamping grounds in Paris which they enjoyed in the spring of 1954; then headed for Naples where daughter Carol and jet pilot son-in-law Bob are doing a magnificent job.
Recently elected treasurer of the Associationof Reserve City Bankers, Richard A. Aishton'18 is a Senior Vice President of the Continental Illinois National Bank and TrustCo. of Chicago.
Secretary, 74 Trinity Place, New York 6, N. Y.
Treasurer, 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y.
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